Wednesday, August 19, 2015

TWO EVENINGS - TWO PRACTICES

Monday

The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care

"Twenty-six hundred years ago Shakyamuni Buddha established a practice to
address suffering, old age, sickness, and death. In 2006 Zen Buddhist monks, Koshin Paley Ellison and Robert Chodo Campbell, established
the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care in the heart of New
York City. We offer training in contemplative care so that people can
learn to care in mindful and compassionate ways in hospitals, hospices,
and homes, as well as in their everyday relationships. We do this work in
order to create a more courageous and harmonious world."

On the front altar this night a prayer card, it is a regular practice to have a picture, name or card commemorating the passing of a member or friend of a member for a period of time.

Tuesday

Broome Street Ganesha Temple

"The Broome Street Ganesha Temple is a place for both personal and
communal transformation. It serves as a link in the continuance of vital
ancient traditions that are healing and devotional in nature. It is
our goal to engage in the following endeavors: to preserve traditional
lineages, and to encourage knowledge, devotion and charity in ourselves,
as well as fellow human beings."

A clip of the last session of monthly chanting eleven Hanuman Chalesas led by Shyama Chapin. This vibrant center established in 2001 will be closing in two weeks and is currently searching for a new location in which to continue all it's Vedic practices.

BOB and SOPHIE

WILF RIP

JUDE's MAGIC FEATHER PROJECT

(click on box to go to site)

JUDE's FLICKER

MAGIC FEATHER (click on picture to view slide show)

JUDE's STONES

Jude's Gathering STONES

ZEN HABITS

(click on picture)

You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.The great opportunity is where you are. Every place is the center of the world." -John Burroughs-

PLANT GROWTH

click on Photo for a short video

WHAT IF

What if every little thing you do subtly alters the course of world history? What if your day-to-day decisions will actually help determine how the human species navigates its way through the epic turning point we're living through?-Rob.Bresney-

COMPASSION HEALS

By three methods we may learn Wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest- Second by imitation, which is the easiest- Third by experience, which is the bitterest Confucius

WITNESSS

MIRROR

WORSHIP

David Foster Wallace said

The realization that you have something of value to contribute to the greater world necessarily involves prying your mind off yourself for a minute.